William Shakespeare1564-1616

WHAT DID SHAKESPEARE WRITE?

37 extant plays (one or more others missing)

19 published in Quartos during his lifetime36 published in Folio in 1623

2 long narrative poems several shorter poems 154 sonnets

Elizabeth Ireigned 1558-

1603

James Ireigned 1603-

1625

First Folio, 1623

The folio’s 3 genres:

The Rose Theatre1587

Blue Boar Inn Yard

c.1850

drawing of the original Globe Theatre

Rebuilt Globe Theatre in London (1997)

(rebuilt Globe Theatre)

the “heavens”: painted roof over the stagebalcony – used for playing space, and music3 doorways to “tiring house” behind stage

Shakespeare at the Globe today

thrust stage3-tiered galleries on 3 sides“groundlings” stand in the pit

View from an upper gallery

empty galleries and yard

View from second gallery

Musicians above the stage

Location of Elizabethan playhouses

Chandos portrait(17th century)